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Originally Posted by HehoChef
I got my hands on a bunch of cheap third and fourth gen i7's, and wanted to set them up as a small render farm.
I've got the distributed encoding working fine.
They all have 16gigs and above of memory.
But they came without bootdrives, and I want to avoid buying a bunch of basically useless drives, however cheap they maybe.
Has anyone ever tried creating a bespoke pxe image, something like a thin client just for ripbot?
Just RipBot264, Java 32bit, AVisynth, ffdshow, haali media splitter and .Net Framework, plus however slim you get Windows.
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Sounds like a plan...but...
I have a small render farm (6 dual cpu systems), and I have used small SSD drives, so each unit has an individual Windows OS installed.
With my VERY limited understanding of PXE booting, don't you require a dedicated "client" to host the PXE Windows image ??
As I use different clients for different jobs & day's, I doubt this would work, as there would be multiple IP's floating around, so for me, I doubt this would work.
And if Atak says it's very complicated, then it must be !!!!